Sentences with phrase «much of an affinity»

The director behind the celebrated (but uneven) cannibal movie «We Are What We Are,» and the vampire indie «Stake Land,» Mickle certainly has a proclivity for dark and bloody genre films with intense horror tropes, and «Cold In July» evinces much of those affinities.

As a young girl in the 1970s, she doesn't recall having much of an affinity for her hometown.

Foster says that even without Costco, his company is taking steps to get as much of the affinity business as it can.

Not exact matches

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

We find some affinity with some of the other Movements: like them we have grown and flourished though on a more modest scale and with a quite different style: we are much smaller, we are not international, we own no properties or schools, and our priests are all diocesan, working in parishes under the direction of their bishops.

The affinity of the gospel and of the working class lies in this: Any religion that does not get at the working core of persons will not have much hold on them.

And recent New Testament scholarship suggests that Jesus of Nazareth had much more affinity with this stream of thought than previously realized.

Yet there has also been much speculation, often prompted by explicit considerations of Weber, that Puritanism had paved the way for the Lockean theory of democracy through an elective affinity of ideas.

Critics charge that Weber's arguments go beyond notions of elective affinity in emphasizing the role of status groups as carriers of new ideas, but the intervening mechanisms relating particular ideas to particular status groups still leave much to be explained.

The notion of a gestalt, borrowed from Gestalt Psychology, has much affinity with Whitehead's notion of an actual occasion.

There is much to ponder in her refreshing and warmly appreciative readings of the City of God and the Confessions, and in the surprising affinities she traces between Augustine and modern writers like Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt.

There is of course no special affinity between crankiness as such and superior intellect, (Superior intellect, as Professor Bain has admirably shown, seems to consist in nothing so much as in a large development of the faculty of association by similarity.)

I knew, of course, that it made sense to teach the two writers together, but I hadn't then thought very much about influences, comparisons and contrasts, affinities, rankings in the literary hierarchy and so on.

On the contrary it is very much of a broad church — a large - scale project that has affinities and involvements across the entire board of philosophical concerns.

Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that because of the much - publicised fact that my father was a Sinn Féin councillor, Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.

«That said, I don't think he's particularly well - known in the nonpolitical tech entrepreneurial world... the Meet - Ups, Foursquares and prominent local tech - start ups haven't had much to do with him, that community has a stronger affinity for Christine Quinn,» he continued, due to Bloomberg's appointment of Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot and record of spotlighting the work of tech entrepreneurs.

Jena had already been working for more than five years on superhalogens, a class of molecules that mimic the chemistry of halogens but have electron affinities that are much larger than that of the halogen atoms.

There are a number of reasons why the trials may have failed, Hardy says, including the possibility that the antibody did not have high enough affinity for the particular forms of amyloid that do the most damage in the brain, or that the patients in the trials had already experienced too much brain degeneration to benefit.

Best of all, the derivatives were even more effective than the original compound, without leading to that worrisome estrogenic metabolite or showing much affinity themselves for estrogen receptors.

Maselko has an affinity for the wild — he spent much of his childhood in Anchorage and tries to get out of Minneapolis at least once a week, often to the north shore of Lake Superior.

Because each miRNA has multiple target genes, we speculate that the presence of many other target genes with higher affinity to the miR -150-containing RISC will perturb the ability of miR - 150 to regulate the APC mRNA and that miR - 150 has much weaker effect, if any, on the WNT signaling pathway in vivo.

The description of the service promises removal of «rolls of dark gray skin» to reveal «fresh pink glowing skin» and other than a photo of the scrub room, which vaguely resembles a mad scientist's laboratory with an affinity for pink, does not say much else.

Whether it's because I really love ice cream or have some bizarre affinity to bowls, smoothie bowls are pretty much the light of my life right now.

It is possible that the vitamin D concentrations of the milk would have been higher if the mothers had been consuming only vitamin D3, the animal form of vitamin D. Vitamin D is carried into breast milk attached to the vitamin D - binding protein; 21 since one study found vitamin D2 to have a lower affinity than vitamin D3 for the vitamin D - binding protein, it may be that vitamin D3 is much more effective than vitamin D2 at raising the levels of vitamin D in milk.

Coumestol has the same binding affinity for the ERb receptor as estrogen, but it has much less of an affinity for ERa.

That's one of the reasons I love this Kate Spade clutch so much — I have an affinity for cute, playful things and I think this highlights that.

There has been much research that shows that certain varieties of individuals have an affinity for other specific types of individuals, respectively.

Mr. Scott's affinity for the visceral and strenuous, from «Alien» to «Blade Runner» to «White Squall,» is much more central here than the renegade feminism of his «Thelma and Louise.»

And just as Topsy - Turvy was as much a depiction of the man behind the camera as it was about Gilbert and Sullivan, so too does a palpable affinity for Leigh's current subject course through every frame of this Cannes prize - winning film.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

A quick estimate of how much your positive or negative affinity adds is to multiply your raw by 0.25 * affinity.

If you're fond of the duo from their «Sister Sister» days or just have an affinity for the Halloween season (not that this movie has much to do with Halloween, mind you), you might just find Twitches Too diverting enough to be worth your while.

So their special affinity doesn't seem to matter as much as the quality of their material and their particular feeling for it.

Brilliantly observant, Ghost World captures the unthinking cruelty and insecurity of teenagers, but what is most impressive (and distinguishes it from the mocking approach of much of Clowes» work) is its sympathy, evident not only in deep understanding of the young protagonists but also in affinity for the supporting characters — even the parents, when they are glimpsed, are sympathetically depicted.

«Both serve as superb affinity programs for Amazon, as Kindle owners spend 30 % more, and Prime members spend twice as much, as the rest of Amazon's customers,» said CIRP co-founder Mike Levin.

This is not to say that I don't value, admire, and respect much of the work found, for instance, in the Times — only that I've no affinity for, or loyalty to, the paper itself.

Though both have you running and gunning through a Mad - Maxian post apocalyptic wasteland, Rage developer id Software insists that their upcoming anger - infused shooter doesn't share much in common with Gearbox Software's Borderlands, other than an affinity for Mister Gibson's early body of work.

I didn't know it at the time, but it was the beginning of my longtime affinity for RPGs, which has characterized much of my life as a gamer.

Head to the linked blog below for the full story, as well as information on Forza 4's new feature: «Rivals Mode», the return of user hosted public lobbies which the community missed so much in Forza 3, the new «car affinity» system, and more.

Get ready: there are five continents, hundreds of destinations, over 700 achievements, dozens of affinity quests, hundreds of square miles to thoroughly explore, data mining probes, mech management and maintenance, art and skill upgrades, soul voices to swap out, characters to mix and match, and much much, more.

So although American viewers will reflexively relate the streaming brushstrokes in her paintings to New York School painting, or to the work of an American closer to her in age, such as David Reed, she may feel just as much affinity for European practitioners of improvisational painting such as Pierre Soulages, Howard Hodgkin or even Gerhard Richter.

One reason perhaps her art «translated» so much more easily to Europe was that her work had an affinity with the work of revered European artists like Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Oscar Kokoschka and Van Gogh.

The first theme in our Summer Session series is labor, and today we're revisiting Anuradha Vikram's essay on the so - called creative economy and its effects: «The mythology of the creative economy explains much of why San Franciscans who have pioneered this approach to work are under - invested in the arts despite some apparent affinities.

At first glance, much of their work shares affinities with American pop or conceptual art, but in context, it points to deeper societal rifts.

Contesting the progress - and - mastery saga of twentieth - century modernism, Chicago - based artist Tony Tasset spent much of the 1980s and»90s meticulously crafting insolent, critical objects, and the nine works represented in this ten - year survey (1986 — 96) unambiguously assert his past affinity for blunt deconstructionist strategies.

And it is here that West's affinity with Hepworth is clearest: in their shared commitment to making and the transformation of brute material into something meaningful, however ambiguous or elusive that meaning, however much it might slip away back into the river like the ghost of a thought.

Answer: People are always surprised, particularly my San Francisco friends, that I have an affinity for Southern California, but it's very much a part of my heritage.

Today their affinities — such as their dismissal of decoration, though by disparate means — weigh as much as their obvious aesthetic contrasts.

It allowed affinities with the likes of Ida Applebroog and her friend and collaborator, the late Louise Bourgeois, to emerge, demonstrating that Emin very much belongs in their league.

But short of such an expectation, the museum's intimate if quirky treatment of the Uruguayan artist reveals much, in particular through his affinities with the American sculptor.